News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 2, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct a special 1-hour program focusing on Spanish contact in the Southeastern United States, specifically in the Chattanooga region. This is a free program and will take place at the Gateway...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Eight House Committee leaders sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting an immediate extension of public comment periods, hearings and meetings that were affected by the government shutdown earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A Nebraska man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography in 2016, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Kelly of the District of Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Michigan Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in $1.2 Million Kickback Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Chinese National Sentenced to Prison for Selling Counterfeit Computer Parts.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the Committee’s Ranking Member; Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations; and Rep. Chris Smith (R-J), the Subcommittee’s Ranking Member today released the following statement on Nigeria’s upcoming presidential elections...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GARY TURNER pled guilty this afternoon in Manhattan federal court to the murder of Samuel Ozuna, 17, outside the George Washington Carver Houses in New York, New York on April 24, 2018. United States District Judge Jesse M. Furman presided over the defendant’s guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 13, 2019, following a two-day trial in the U.S. District Court, before the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Senior U.S. District Judge, a jury convicted Brandon Lee Alexander, 36, of Morristown, Tennessee, of possession with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine;...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A California lawyer and former Rialto police officer was indicted today by a federal grand jury after he was found with a fake FBI credential, a hand grenade, silencers and several illegal firearms, including a loaded AR-type semiautomatic rifle.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced today that the Oversight...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) celebrated House passage of The Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes critical funding for construction of the first Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - John Overby, 49, of Brandon, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 60 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Overby was also ordered to pay a $1,500.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: FBI Albany Honors Syracuse Resident Susan Case DeMari with Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Department of Veterans Affairs Official Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for $2 Million Bribery Scheme Involving Program for Disabled Military Veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan M. Serrano Acevedo, also known as Juan Acevedo-Serrano, 36, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration proposes a $150,000 civil penalty against Pacific Coast Aviation of Brookings, Ore., for allegedly operating a jet on dozens of flights when it was not in an airworthy condition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Feb. 15, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park Superintendent Jennifer Flynn has announced the launch of the park’s official app, NPS Shenandoah. The free app, available in both Apple’s iOS and Android platforms is designed to give visitors a digital tool for exploring Shenandoah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Richard Jacobellis was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to an agreed upon 16 years of imprisonment, to be followed by three years’ supervised release, for distributing heroin. When Jacobellis pleaded guilty in June 2018, he admitted that heroin he distributed caused the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Weber in 2016 and serious bodily injury to another in 2015.
